The CEO, Robert Altman, is vastly overpaid. This station does endless fund drives just to pay his salary and the programming continues to go down hill. It has become a boring "Classical Top 40" canned program.
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Mission: Mission:wmht uses media to enrich our communities with programs and services that advance education, culture and civic engagement, empower individuals, celebrate our diversity and reveal what we have in common. Vision:wmht envisions a community confident in its identity, its potential fully realized, inspired and connected through trusted public media. Values and goals:community: we place the community at the center of our work. Integrity: we honor the trust placed in us by doing our work with honesty and transparency. Excellence: we believe that the importance of our services demands that they be carried out with excellence. Innovation: we embrace the new solutions that will be needed to serve our evolving communities. Respect: we express an authentic regard for the intelligence and diverse viewpoints of our audiences and our community.
Programs: Public television broadcasting and production - wmht provides weekly local and regional programming on public affairs, government, business, cooking, health, economic issues and arts in new york's capital region and beyond. During the past year we enhanced our well-earned reputation as the community's story teller with programs like henry johnson- tale of courage, hamilton's albany, tvfilm and documentaries on subjects as diverse as the william kennedy and mario cuomo. We continued to celebrate the region's arts and culture with our weekly program aha! And our local documentary behind the lights which went behind the scenes of breathing lights, a temporary public art installation designed to illuminate the past, present and future of albany, schenectady and troy through funding from the national bloomberg philanthropies public art challenge, while crafting a compelling program schedule on all four television channels, designed for our local audience, which resulted in increased audiences for the fifth consecutive year. Aha! A house for arts is wmht's weekly program celebrating the region's artists, makers and creative institutions. Each week aha! Takes a look at one thread of the creative fabric that makes our region and exciting place to live and work. Through a weekly presence aha! Has not only established an important place in the viewing life of our audiences but played a vital role in highlighting the role of the creative community in the life of our region and building new audiences and consumers for that community in the process. Segments produced in fy17 ranged from incredible local institutions with national recognition (jacob's pillow, tanglewood, mavericks, bottle museum, shakespeare & co) to hyper-local projects and initiatives with immediate cultural and community effects (a young black entrepreneur working to create more creative arts spaces that are welcoming to people of color, afterschool music program, that serves children from less-advantaged backgrounds, and an artist who had to relearn to paint with his opposite hand after a stroke). Each story is relevant, and hopes to share information about the myriad people and places that make our community and region unique. Despite its critical importance, state government is often overlooked by media as they focus on national or purely local issues. Each week, new york now brings this important coverage to citizens in the capital region and across new york state, helping the citizens of new york to understand the issues that their elected and appointed are grappling with on their behalf. Our weekly presence is complemented by an ongoing series of specials on topics as diverse as the budget and education as well as in-depth coverage of the election process.
public radio broadcasting- wmht has 2 radio services wext (97. 7) a aaa-format, and wmht-fm a classical music station. Wmht-fm provides comprehensive clasical music programming, combining original production, distinctive speciality programs, live concert presentations and the talents of locally and nationally-recognized hosts. The classical music station wmht-fm is located at 89. 1 in new york's capital region and on wrhv-fm 88. 7 in the poughkeepsie area (and also available via hd radio), wmht helps keep the arts thriving in our community by making wonderful classical music accessible to all. Wmht and wrhv airs renowned programs such as "bach's lunch, "performance today", "symphonycast and "wmht live", "composer's notebook" along with npr news updates. Wmht also operates rise which is a 24 hour radio information services for the blind and print disabled in new york's capital region and hudson valley. Besides wmht/wrhv and rise, wmht also operates 97. 7 wext whose focus is on emerging artists, classic songs that regular radio has forgotten, especially music by local musicians in our region (the local 518).
educational services- what distinguishes wmht and pbs from other broadcasters is our public service commitment to fostering lifelong learning. This commitment is reflected in our on-air educational programs, our online services and the work we do within the community. An established pbs affiliate serving eastern nys and areas of western new england, wmht-tv offers a rich array of educational children's television programs from sesame street to curious george to newer favorites like super why! Fy 17 education/ local community outreach focused on unserved and underserved audiences through a number of programs and services including: ready to learn, stories and art in the parks and summer learning, pbs learningmedia new york, community connections and ste(a)m website